The Bishop Mule Days Celebration stampeded into Bishop, CA, over the Memorial Day Weekend like it has for the past 43 years. Despite the high cost of fuel and a struggling economy, the loyalists and fans came out in droves, as they do year after year. But that could be expected; Mule Days has grown […]
My mule Jester was born on April Fools’ Day, hence his name. But he has proven to be no joke. Jester was a two-and-a-half-year-old untouchable mule that the breeder had “left behind” at birth, due to lack of time and interest. He was parked in a large pasture with other John mules and became uneasy […]
The journey to Bishop Mule Days on Memorial Day weekend was a long and strange one this year. It was long, because I drove from Los Angeles to Prescott to pick up a trailer. Had I known the drive from Prescott to Bishop would take 11 hours, I would not have spent the night drinking […]
